VO-BB - 20 YEARS OLD!

Deirdre · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:44 am Post subject:

The key word is "script".
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mcm · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 5:50 am Post subject:

Where is that little avatar of the cats watching the ping pong game?

Amy, know that at least one corner of the East coast is vibrating in sympathy. I think you've said everything that needs to be said to this person. You have ample data to show that if you respond to him, he will respond to you, over and over again. Let him have the last word. Correction: let him have had the last word.

asnively · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:04 am Post subject:

I'm definitely not going to say anything else to him. He might not have meant it this way-- there is a big language barrier here-- but I felt threatened by his last email. Something about the phrase "and you will finish it" chilled me.
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:07 am Post subject:

What agency is he talking about?
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asnively · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:16 am Post subject:

Not really an agency, per se. Voices dot com. Otherwise a nice agent would be helping me. Alas, I have only you... I wrote a nice note to my usual contact there:

Hi _________;

I just wanted to give you a heads-up. You're going to be getting a complaint about me! I guess he thinks you guys are going to fire me...

Anyway, a man in [Random Far Off South American Country] found me on Voices and asked me to record audio for his Flash animation. After trying very hard to understand his limited English, made worse by his bad VOIP phone line, I have realized that I must withdraw from his project. I won't bore you with the crazy details unless you're really hurting for entertainment over there, but suffice it to say that it is just impossible for me to try to work with him, and I am convinced that anything I do will not be good enough.

So, I very, very politely sent him an email withdrawing from the project and asked him to stop calling me on the phone (he has called me constantly and repeatedly since I first said I'd do his VO.) He is continuing to send me unintelligible emails in broken English, and from my best guess, is apparently refusing to let me withdraw!

His last email states plainly that, if I don't continue to work for him, he will report me to you! And he wants to remove the 5 stars he gave me, too, by the way. Since I won't be replying to him, I thought I'd just warn you about this.

Other than that, all is well! Have a great week, and you know where to find me if you need me!

[The usual warm closure]
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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:33 am Post subject:

Good Lord. What a tempest in a teapot.

I hope this dude will "let you go"!
Gah.
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asnively · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:43 am Post subject:

There is one thing that upsets me most. One of the few things I could understand for sure was that he was going to see to it that the five stars he gave me on Voices would be removed. All five. He is not even going to give me one.

A crushing blow.

I know it's silly, but I love my stars...

Wink

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Deirdre · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:47 am Post subject:

You're a star to me.
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Philip Banks · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:16 am Post subject:

He'll understand this -

Dear Cleeant,

As you perceive I have removed myself from you. With much badness always with your calls after I end myself there are bad words of my mouth. Did I have this contract you are agreeing of me? Always allowed words I record that have scripting never did I say English which is having no sense.

I ask lastly for the final once more time to withdraw your person from my contact point, this inconvenience will pleasure me muchly.

tackerman · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:19 am Post subject:

If that doesn't work I don't know what will... Laugh

asnively · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:03 am Post subject:

Perfect!

Frank F · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 8:20 am Post subject:

There is one other option which I can think of. Send him an invoice for the work already completed.

Four days @ say five hours per day = 20 hours.
20 hours multiplied by say a normal writers fee of $175.00 per hour = $3500.00.

Add a note which mentions this:

Don G. · King's Row Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1071 Location: MA

At this point he is bordering on harassment via the telephone. There are some fairly stringent laws on the U.S. books regarding that.

Frank's post spelled out nicely what I was being much more vague about earlier, but you can "create" a new contract which spells out specifically the conditions in which you will work. Write it as you want it, email him a copy requiring his signature and remind him that you will not do any more work until it is signed and returned. Hell, if you need to threaten him with a lawsuit for harassment, so be it.

Your Voices.com stars are nice, but is there not a way to defend a negative? Is there a way to give (or take away) feedback for a client?

Deirdre · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:00 am Post subject:

I must confess I don't know which reply made me smile more, Banksey's or Franksey's.
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Frank F · Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:32 am Post subject:

Made ya giggle... cool

ROFL

Toodles

Frank F
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